ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
Theses and dissertations completed at Eastern Virginia Medical School prior to integration with ODU on July 1, 2024 are not included in Digital Commons unless they were completed as part of a cross-institutional program with ODU. Works completed after July 1, 2024 are being added but are incomplete.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Thesis: A 6-DOF Force Transducer Design from an Existing Rocket Payload Attachment Fitting, Thomas H. Johnson
Dissertation: Biology-Inspired Approach for Communal Behavior in Massively Deployed Sensor Networks, Kennie H. Jones
Thesis: Computational Solution of Tail Buffet Response and Active Flow Control, Kaushik Laxmikant Joshi
Thesis: Development and Validation of Hardware to Measure the Load-Deflection Characteristics of Any Material, Manish Govardhanrao Kalmegh
Dissertation: Hypersonic Boundary Layer Receptivity to Acoustic Disturbances Over Cones, Kursat Kara
Dissertation: The Application of Innovative High-Throughput Techniques to Serum Biomarker Discovery, Izabela Debkiewicz Karbassi
Dissertation: Integration of Market and Entrepreneurial Orientations; and Their Impact on Export Performance: A Contingency Approach, Ayse Nilgun Kaya
Thesis: Morning Has Broken: Uncommon Grace in an Ordinary Family, Charlotte Gail Kent
Thesis: Impact of Airline Business Models on Fuel Efficiency of Aircraft Operations in the National Airspace System (NAS), Trisha R. Khetia
Dissertation: Perceptions of Second-Level Managers' Performance in Student affairs, Jennifer Kingsley
Thesis: Process Study for the Design of Small-Scale 2 Kelvin Refrigeration Systems, Peter N. Knudsen
Dissertation: Experimental Investigation of Active Control of Bluff Body Vortex Shedding, Ilteris Koc
Thesis: Performance of Adaptive Wireless Systems with Feedback, Sirisha Koduri
Thesis: Uncertainty Assessment of Aircraft Maintenance Times by Using Evidence Theory and Expert Judgment Elicitation, Huseyin Kudak
Thesis: Disassembly Planning and Costing Through Petri Net Approach, ChunHsi Lei
Thesis: Modeling Geographic Population Dispersion Utilizing Geospatial Information System Environment Agents in an Agent Based Model, Karl D. Liebert
Thesis: Engineering Management Framework in Support of Modeling & Simulation Application for Domain Specific Procurement, Thomas Guy Litwin
Thesis: Prostate Cancer Patients’ Physiological Responses to Coloring a Mandala or Working a Maze Puzzle, John Daniel Lorance Jr.
Dissertation: The Impact of Collective Animosity and Collective Guilt on the Judgments of and Preferences for Japanese Products, Amro Maher
Thesis: Biomarker Identification for Prostate Cancer Using an Efficient Feature Selection Algorithm, Vamsi Krishnam Raju Mantena
Dissertation: PGE2 Receptor Subsets Mediate HCG Regulation of the Plasminogen Activator/Plasmin System in Primate Periovulatory Follicles, Nune Markosyan
Thesis: Chavs, Neds, Neets and Yobs: The Anti-Social Underclass of the United Kingdom, Alexander Michael Marra
Dissertation: Investigation of (E, 2E) Collisions and Related Phenomena, Jason Manuel Martinez
Thesis: College Students Concern Toward Public Intoxication, Ashley N. Mason
Dissertation: The Impact of the 101s: A Guide to Positive Discipline Training on Teacher Interaction Practices, Attitudes, and Prosocial Skill Outcomes in Preschool Classrooms, Marie Louise Talayco Masterson
Dissertation: The Influence of Demographic Characteristics, Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Attributes on the Effectiveness of the LADDERS Probation Intervention Program, Terri M. Mathews
Thesis: Is There a Perception of a Glass Ceiling? The Relationship Between Gender and Promotional Opportunities, Cassandra L. Matthews
Thesis: Raising Girls’ Self-Esteem: An Art Therapy Approach Using Photography, Alison McAllister
Thesis: Effects of Static and Dynamic Flexibility Protocols on Lower Extremity Range of Motion, Samar K. McCann
Dissertation: Exploring Interactions During Multiorganizational Policy Implementation: A Case Study of the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program, Madeleine Wright McNamara
Dissertation: How Personal Nostalgia Influences Giving to Charity, Altaf Merchant
Thesis: A River Entrenched in Rock, Myrna Amelia Mesa
Thesis: Using Agile Software Development Practices in a Research Oriented Distributed Simulation, Douglas James Mielke
Thesis: The Regulation of Endothelial and Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression in the Preglomerular Vessels by the Increase in Intracellular Calcium Concentration, Stephanie Thomas Montgomery
Dissertation: Effect of Outside Employment on Academic Success Among Full-Time Associate Degree Nursing Students, Julian A. Moore
Thesis: The Line in the Sand: Understanding Customer Sexual Harassment Through a Psychological Contract Framework, Valerie J. Morganson
Dissertation: Achievement Motivation in African American College Students, April Michelle Muldrow
Thesis: The Nature of K-12 Teacher Need Through 2050: A Demographic Investigation of the Teacher Shortage Crisis in the United States, Rebecca M. Mullen
Dissertation: Developing a Repeatable and Reliable Methodology to Determine Return-on-Investment, Mark Cullen Nesselrode
Thesis: Alarm Relevance and Reliability: Factors Affecting Pilots' Alarm Prioritization, Elizabeth T. Newlin
Thesis: Guidelines for Group Art Therapy Videos: Connecting Group Process with Production, Sarah D. E. Newton
Dissertation: Catalytic Wet Air Oxidation of Mono Azo Dye Orange II: Catalyst Selection, Reaction Kinetics, and Modeling, Pinar Ozdural
Dissertation: The Non-Cognitive Attributes of First-Year At-Risk Students Who Are Academically Successful and Retained at Old Dominion University, Tisha M. Paredes
Thesis: Adaptive Control of Large Amplitude Nonlinear Free Vibrations of Composite Shallow Shells Using System Identification and Self-Sensing Piezoelectric Actuators, Minseock Park
Dissertation: Analysis and Application of Perfectly Matched Layer Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Computational Aeroacoustics, Sarah Anne Parrish
Thesis: Visual Journaling: An Intervention to Influence Stress, Anxiety and Affect Levels in Medical Students, Amanda Patton
Dissertation: A Program Evaluation of Supplemental Instruction for Developmental Mathematics at a Community College in Virginia, Marilyn Lawson Peacock
Thesis: Medical Image Modeling and Processing, Ramu Pedada
Thesis: Failure Repair Model for a Device Using Minor and Major Maintenance Strategies, Hrishikesh Raman Phadke
Thesis: Measuring Self-Disclosure Over the Internet, David Pope
Thesis: Education Enhancement Using Visualization and Simulation Tools for Basic Circuit Theory Concepts, Jariwala Rajvi Prakashchandra
Thesis: Document Design and Emergency Management Plans, Emily Elizabeth Price
Dissertation: The Professional Identity of Counseling Students in Master's Level CACREP Accredited Programs, Bianca Puglia
Thesis: Immersive Active Learning for Virtual Laboratory Experiments, Swetha Punnandla
Thesis: Lord Baltimore's Charter and the Definition of the English-Colonial Relationship in the Seventeenth Century, Christopher D. Purnell
Thesis: Joint Transform Correlation with a Synthetic Discrimination Function for Object Classification, Inder K. Purohit
Thesis: Image Pre-Processing Techniques for Hazard Detection in Poor Visibility Conditions, Girish Singh Rajput
Dissertation: Biological Networks: Modeling and Structural Analysis, Emad Y. Ramadan
Thesis: Correlates of Marital Success A Homogamy Model, Sarah A. Raper
Thesis: Image Processing Technique for Runway Segmentation Using Color Spaces, Naresh Reddy Reddy
Thesis: Hearts and Minds, the American Revolution in South Carolina: A Study in the Application of Militia Violence to Influence Politics, Paul K. Reimann
Thesis: Numerical Simulations of a Nonlinear Transmission Line, Stuart Rogers
Dissertation: Cannabinoids: A Novel Treatment Strategy for Retinal Neurodegenerative Disorders, Sandeep Samudre
Thesis: In Vitro Comparison of 360° Unirotational Disposable Prophylaxis Angles Versus 90° Reciprocating Disposable Prophylaxis Angles on Spatter During Rubber Cup Polishing, Kelly Marie Schulz
Thesis: A Phylogeny of the Snappers (Lutjanidae; Percoidei) Inferred from Cytochrome B Sequence Data, Matthew R. Semcheski
Dissertation: Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Ultracold Metastable Argon and Study of Dual Species Trap Loss in a Rubidium-Metastable Argon MOT, Michael K. Shaffer
Thesis: Congestion Mitigation in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Single-Hop Backpressure Algorithm, Vijay Shekar Mangilipalli Gangu Sham
Dissertation: Generals in Three-Piece Suits—Contractors in Camouflage: A Critical Assessment of Contractors in Iraq, Wyman E. Shuler III
Dissertation: The Relationship of Teacher Route to Certification to Student Outcomes on Statewide Social Studies Assessment, Aaron L. Smith
Dissertation: Integrating Preservation Functions Into the Web Server, Joan A. Smith
Thesis: Study of Multibody Dynamics Using MATLAB, Kalyani Soman
Dissertation: Massive Spatiotemporal Watershed Hydrological Storm Event Response Model (MHSERM) with Time-Lapsed NEXRAD Radar Feed, Changqing Song
Dissertation: Democratic Failure: Tracking the Ebb of Democracy's Flow, 1800–2006, Sanja E. Sray
Dissertation: Examination of a Nomological Network of Team Leadership: A Construct Validation Study, Kari R. Strobel
Dissertation: Real-Time Ultrasound Simulation for Medical Training and Standardized Patient Assessment, Bo Sun
Thesis: A Systematic Study on Structural and Optical Properties in Conjugated Polymer Photovoltaic Devices, Sri Sabarinadh Sunkavalli
Dissertation: Institutional Conditionality and State Compliance: The Czech and Slovak Accession to NATO and the EU, Eva Svobodova
Thesis: Searching for Clooney, Roopa Swaminathan
Thesis: Experimental Study of the Frequency Response of a Hot Film Anemometer, Ashish Tamhane
Thesis: Robust Edge-Detection Algorithm for Runway Edge Detection, Swathi Tandra
Thesis: Spatial and Trophic Dynamics of a Macrofaunal Community on a High Energy Intertidal Sandflat, Sharon Ann Tatem
Dissertation: The Impact of Participation in a Virginia Community College Orientation Program Course on Student Engagement, Satisfaction, Academic achievement, and Retention, Wendy L. Tighe
Thesis: Mesoscale Dispersive Flux in the Lower Reaches of the Elizabeth River Estuary, Byron Danrich Tracy
Thesis: A Weighted Modular Principal Component Analysis Approach for Face Authentication, Chandrika Tummala
Dissertation: Parallel MPI/FORTRAN Finite Element Symmetrical/Unsymmetrical Domain Decomposition, Siroj Tungkatara
Dissertation: Identifying Determinants of Physical Activity in Maritime Union Members Using the Theory of Planned Behavior, Susan Atkinson Tweed
Thesis: The Development of Genetic Algorithm for the Prediction of Ship Motion from Wave Radar Data, Sumanth Tirumala Vangipuram
Thesis: Gender Differences in the Romantic Commitment of Swingers: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, Rachel A. Vedder
Thesis: Abuse Behind the Badge Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse in Police Families, Denicia M. Veroza
Thesis: Geo-Rectification of Aerial Images for Detecting Changes in Terrain, Diana Vincent
Thesis: Object Detection in Poor Visibility Conditions Using Image Segmentation, Triveni Vuppalapati
Thesis: Validation of a New Method of Estimating VO2max Based on VO2Reserve with Treadmill Exercise, Julie Lynn Ward
Thesis: Compartmentalizing the Other: Nineteenth-Century Englishwomen, Travel, and English Identity, Amanda E. Williams
Thesis: Piano Study and Gender Associations: A Query Into the Perceptions of Children Ages Five to Fourteen, Richard C. Winfree
Thesis: Crossroads Confessions & Other Configurations, Rebecca Recce Winsor
Thesis: Art Made by Native American Women with Breast Cancer, Hanni Woelk
Thesis: Detecting Portable Electronic Devices Onboard Commercial Aircraft, Randy Woods
Thesis: An Approach to Identifying the Biomechanical Differences Between Intercostal Cartilage in Subjects with Pectus Excavatum and Normals in Vivo: Reconstruction and CT Registration, Zhenzhen Yan
Thesis: Multivariable Flight Control Design Tool Incorporating Gain and Phase Root Locus, Yong Ki Yoon
Dissertation: Gene Therapy Using Tet-Repressor System to Modulate Prostate Tumor Microenvironment, Nazita Yousefieh